Forget how excited those kids look, think about Yasiel Puig and how he just showed up at their organized practice, TOOK ALL THE ATTENTION AWAY FROM COACHES, and hogged it all for himself.

By signing autographs and pitching to the kids, he was distracting from valuable lessons and instruction they could be gaining without his presence. Worse, the kid says he showed up unannounced, which is very typical of Puig, who has no respect for the game.

At the end, the player says it’s a moment he’ll never forget. Puig has scarred this child for life with his undisciplined antics.

Most seem to hate it when Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times gets up on his perch to crow about something or other, partially because it’s so smug and holier-than-thou in execution, but also partially because he’s wildly inconsistent and regularly hypocritical. The latter reason is something that was especially noticeable today, as he riffed on Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers‘ comments about beanballs and the Dodgers.

It’s not that I disagreed with his article regarding the D-Backs acting like idiots, but Plaschke picks and chooses what he’s outraged about in the moment instead of making sense throughout.

Here’s what he says about Towers:

These comments should eventually result in a fat suspension and hefty fine from a league office that shouldn’t look kindly on a team official advocating the use of a baseball thrown in excess of 90 mph to inflict bodily harm and possibly endanger lives.

But for now, one can only look at Towers’ classless, playground-bully words with pity.

This quiet determination seemed to be missing at the end of last season, when his pitches were bombed and his reputation was hammered.

It happened in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, when Billingsley hit several Phillies bats and broke one major clubhouse law.

Throughout the night, Phillies pitchers chased Dodgers hitters off the plate while Billingsley — who should have been more confidently aggressive with his 16 regular-season wins and 3.14 ERA — let Phillies hitters comfortably stand.

Dodgers hitters ducked while Phillies hitters swatted. Dodgers hitters dived while Phillies hitters soared. The Phillies took an 8-5 victory while Billingsley gave up eight runs (seven earned) without even making it out of the third inning.

Towers is endangering lives, but Billingsley is a wuss.

Note that Plaschke is calling for basically the same thing that Towers is.

Got it, Bill.

On Towers:

What Towers said, however, is far worse, because lives are involved here. Somebody could get hurt. That somebody, of course, would not be Towers, because he won’t have to walk to home plate with a bat. Here’s hoping major-league baseball knocks him on his butt, and the Diamondbacks regain their pride in just being the Diamondbacks without continually attacking the Dodgers.

On Billingsley:

Everyone forgot his 200 2/3 innings pitched, his 201 strikeouts, his Cy Young potential, and his ripe old age of 24. Everyone remembered how, earlier in the season, San Francisco’s Matt Cain hit Ramirez in the head and Billingsley didn’t retaliate then, either.

“I thought to myself, this is a kid who needs to send his next Christmas card from the beach,” Colletti says. “Next year, he needs to have blue water behind him.”

Filled, perhaps, with a couple of splashing guys he knocked in there with his fastball.

So while Plaschke concern trolls about beanballs and how they endanger lives today, four years ago he did EXACTLY what Towers did, which was call for Billingsley to randomly drill players or else he’ll go down as soft. Worse yet, the tone of his article about the Dodgers and Phillies in 2009 sounded exactly like what he just accused the D-Backs of being towards the Dodgers: insecure and petty about being inferior.

So just to be clear, if a Dodgers pitcher does not retaliate for brushback pitches, he’s a coward, loses the clubhouse, and it invalidates his entire year. But if another team wants to hit the Dodgers, they’re endangering lives and it’s a childish practice.

Which one is it, Bill?

All of this is just to point out that the next time Plaschke decides to do a hit piece (or writes anything, really) on a Dodger player for whatever asinine reason, please just ignore him. It’s what he deserves.

Although Kershaw will never admit it, his pitch that plunked the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Gerardo Parra in the elbow in the sixth inning of the Dodgers’ eventual 3-2 victory appeared to be a retaliation for Parra’s crotch-grabbing, home-run posing insult of the Dodgers on Tuesday night.

Kershaw was immediately ejected, and some might think his Cy Young bid was derailed, but I propose that it was cemented. At a moment where he would have been excused the greatest of selfishness, he threw one for the team. By hitting Parra, he had everything to lose but his teammates’ respect, yet clearly decided he would rather have that respect.

Kershaw could have played it safe and finished the game and nobody would have blamed him. But Kershaw obviously couldn’t forget the previous night, when Parra was angered by an inside pitch from Hong-Chih Kuo in the seventh inning, and then taunted the Dodgers with gestures both before and after his ensuing home run.

The Dodgers found this particularly insulting because Kuo has spent this season suffering from an unexplainable wildness known as “Steve Blass disease.” It’s difficult to throw at a batter when you have no idea where the ball is going. It is no secret that Kuo has sought psychological help for his condition. It should have been no secret to Parra that Kuo was clearly not throwing at him.

It didn’t matter. Parra acted like a punk. The players on both benches barked at each other. Nobody barked louder than Kershaw, who could be seen yelling, “We’ll find out … we’ll find out … let’s go!”

On Wednesday night, we found out. The kid has toughness to go with his greatness, leadership to match his skill.

I understood why Kershaw did it, because Parra wasn’t celebrating as much as screaming at Hong Chih Kuo and begging for a fight if Kuo gave a single fuck about him. But still, if Plaschke is advocating for retaliation against other teams, why not regarding retaliation against the Dodgers?

Disclaimer: If you don’t care or don’t want to read about stupid, childish men getting catty over the Internetz — you know, like a normal human being wouldn’t care — then click out of this article. Seriously. It’s really dumb.

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So yesterday, I wrote a Michael Young post basically saying that the Dodgers shouldn’t expect much, I didn’t see the point in his signing, and that it’s fine to hope he can catch lightning in a bottle, but it’s stupid to assume it.

It’s not exactly an opinion that is rare among the blogosphere, and I feel I supported it well with evidence and what not. Standard stuff, really. Apparently though, a couple people didn’t take to it kindly, namely Howard Cole and whoever runs Lasorda’s Lair in public.

Don’t listen to this, don’t buy into this (and note the near-compulsive use of word “I” in the writer’s posts), and with the exception of the comment about defense, really really really don’t listen to this and this, from a Sports Illustrated writer who is smart enough to know better.

The linked articles in the paragraph are to a pair of national writers and to me and Mike Petriello. Mike doesn’t need me to defend him, so I won’t bother.

Anyway, it gets personal because of stuff like this:

Pay special attention to the cynics who actually think they know better (and always think they know better) than the professionals in the front offices of major league baseball clubs, most of whom have worked their entire adult lives to rise to those positions.

Which he justifies with stuff like this:

Do listen to Ned Colletti when he talks about character and experience. Listen to Colletti when he sums up his thoughts about Young like this: “I think he’s a professional player who has a chance to help us…We have a long way to go and when you can add people this time of year who bring what he brings, we’ve gone for it and will continue to go for it.”

Listen to Don Mattingly’s complementary comment here: “He makes us stronger. He gives us more options. Gives us a chance to spell Adrian [Gonzalez], if we want to spell Juan [Uribe]“

In itself, it’s not that bad. Howard has his strong opinions, which is totally okay. But he also decided to disparage me and others personally simply because we disagree with him, which is over the line and full of logical fallacies, but not worth a call out, right?

Sure, I agree, but stuff like this seems a lot worse in my own personal context, because I know it’s been preceded by shit like this:

I think writers from NY who have been to Dodger Stadium like twice in ten years shouldn't be calling themselves a Dodger fan

Plus, following this tweet, he made a crude dick joke aimed towards me that I ignored but it got him called out by even his own followers. Even got a DM from somebody asking if he was drunk or not. So there’s that.

But seriously, those are just the ones I remember vividly because it was all so incredibly ridiculous. And yet, Howard and that other person (LL) had lots of other stuff to say over the months that I don’t even want to bother trying to relive.

So with that established, I mean, you’ll have to excuse me if I do take this a bit more personal than it appears on the surface. Because, well, it clearly is. So what the hell, why not address it, right? I don’t think it’s out of line to defend myself.

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1) Yeah, I use “I” in my articles, because it’s a personal blog and it’s my opinion. If you don’t like how I write or whatever I do, then don’t read it and don’t care.

Also, I do it because I claim my opinions. You know, unlike writing something about someone, making snarky comments about how he REALLY needs to see it, and then hiding it from him and just HOPING that he sees it. That’s a much more effective way of concern trolling than actually having the nuts to let me/us know.

Thanks for the life lesson, wise one.

2) That picture is a great segue into my next point, which is: Really? Calling me out on being self-important?

I have my opinion and I go strong with it, but never have I done shit like write about myself in the third person … all the damn time. Hell, I don’t even take myself that seriously online. I don’t take it seriously because I like to have fun with it, and I certainly don’t go about my business because I think I’m some kind of fucking baseball guru who knows everything.

But hey, yeah, we’re all self-important, arrogant jerks. You’re not, you just constantly say to listen to you and only you. So glad you’re above all this.

3) Also, just to get this straight, you’re the only one allowed to come strong with your opinions? How is it that once other people strongly express their opinions, they are the arrogant, all-knowing, cynical, asshole mob who doubt everything the Dodgers do?

WHAT?

This coming from the guy who, just off the top of my head in the past few months: 1) told me to watch the games when I argued for Kenley Jansen over Brandon League 2) argued against the Ricky Nolasco trade because of the MINOR LEAGUE STATISTICAL PROFILE of the prospects sent to the Marlins?

Now you’re appealing to authority because of stock quotes from Don Mattingly and Ned Colletti, saying they know what they’re doing? Really? From this guy?

That’s just what I found while randomly scrolling down your Twitter feed, and you know damn well there’s tons more where that came from.

In May, you were absolutely insistent that Mattingly be canned. In fact, that whole mess of a Twitter meltdown by LL was because Mike and I said that firing him wouldn’t solve shit. Yet both of you were so against Mattingly as manager that I thought you were both about to fucking lynch him yourselves.

But now, NOW, you feel comfortable using the logic that because Mattingly and Colletti say something, we should pack our shit and go home because they know everything?

What in the FUCK, dude?

Besides, are you seriously talking about throwing the Young trade back in our faces if he does good for the Dodgers?

Why? Because we fucking disagreed on a bench player in an August waiver trade? No, it has to be more than that. Because when did I ever throw the League or Nolasco outcomes back in your face? Or anything else for that matter? I rarely bring up past predictions unless prompted. Why? Because THIS IS BASEBALL and WE’RE RIGHT AND WRONG ABOUT SHIT CONSTANTLY and I don’t feel the need to act like a 10-year-old by being an asshole to a fellow Dodger blogger. That’s how most of us act in the blogosphere, because we’re all in this guessing game together.

But nope, because we have a disagreement over the value of MICHAEL FUCKING YOUNG, you guys choose to take personal shots.

What. A. Joke.

4) Constructive criticism? I get that all the time. People call me out all the time and I’m wrong all the time. It happens with moves, prospects, and … uh … everything, really. As they say, that’s baseball.

I have no problem with constructive criticism that makes sense. Hell, as an example, this whole Young thing started because Jon Weisman pointed out the Jerry Hairston Jr./Young comparison. The difference is that he writes sensible stuff on his blog, makes his point rationally and is civil to me, and doesn’t resort to calling me out on fucking grammar mistakes and asinine bullshit all the time.

I know Oxford Dictionaries added ‘selfie’ and ‘twerk’ to the vocab recently, so this is a crazy time and all, but did I miss when the meanings of “constructive criticism” and “being a repetitive agitator” were reversed?

5) Honestly? I don’t care anymore. Take your revenge for this post however you want it.

Sorry, just not gonna take it from a guy (guys) who refers to himself in the third person constantly, has the gall to tweet vague ethnic jokes to me, and mocks people behind their backs in comment threads because they don’t go to the stadium enough or whatever the fuck you guys meant by that comment towards Dustin Nosler (well, we all know how you feel about that stuff regarding Mike, right?).

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Just admit it, this isn’t about Michael Young, no matter how much you want to use that as a front. This is about your not-so-secret resentment that always comes out whenever you’re in a bad mood or decide to tweet wasted or whatever.

When did I EVER make personal attacks on you? Even after you’ve done all this condescending shit to me? I can be a dick about baseball opinions? Okay, I own that, I’ve ALWAYS owned that. But the both of you are snide assholes to me and others PERSONALLY, and I’ve done nothing but disagree with you about baseball and getting fed up with your bi-polar switches between insane egotism and trying to generate sympathy.

The mature thing for me to have done in this scenario would have been to let it go, but unfortunately, I guess I’m not that quality of a person. I do know this, though: I’ve been more tolerant and more accepting with the two of you, personally, than you’ve ever been to me.

Though I find it interesting how many people want to give their two cents about this when they ignore other players doing the same types of things all the time.

I wonder what the difference between them are? Not saying, I’m just saying.

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Besides, once again, and I’ve always said this, but for a culture so built around machismo, baseball players sure get their feelings hurt over the most asinine shit.

Their standards are always amusing to me, because it’s built around this “be a man” type of rhetoric, but by that logic, shouldn’t opposing players “be a man” and get over it? Grow up, you’re an adult, not a teenager who needs to respond to celebrations you don’t like with violence.

“MOMMY MOMMY THAT MAN HURT MY FEELINGS! CAN I PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE AND MAYBE KILL HIM NOW?”

It’s all quite pathetic.

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Here’s the hypocrisy in a nutshell, courtesy of Greg Swindell:

For those that never played the game. And never will. You earned stripes in baseball. Like anything else. What Papi did was not right 1/2

In what has been a horrible 2013 thus far for the team, at least there’s been bright spots off-the-field to relieve the constant bombardment of negativity.

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2013/05/after-matt-kemp-hyun-jin-ryu-latest-dodger-to-do-cool-thing-for-fan/feed/0Who are the favorites to win the MLB National League this season?http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2013/04/who-are-the-favorites-to-win-the-mlb-national-league-this-season/
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We are on the cusp of a new MLB season, which means that fans and those interested in baseball betting are starting to think about which teams could conceivably win the American and National leagues, and the World Series. When it comes to the National League, there are sides from all three of the divisions (East, West, and Central) that have a real chance to take the pennant.

The favorites from the NL East division is currently the Washington Nationals – although the Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies must also be considered in contention. Washington are favorites, both for the East division and the NL, with odds of 7/2. The West division looks likely to put up two real contenders – the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers have spent big – their payroll is rumored to be between $215 and $230 million – but the Giants are the holders of the World Series and will not want to lose that crown. This could be a titanic battle, especially compared with the Central division – where most expect the Cincinnati Reds to be the only serious contenders for the National League pennant. They won the division by nine games last year, and will hope to go one better by taking the pennant this season.

If you find it too hard to select a team to bet on for the National League at this stage, you may prefer to play a game like Hot Shot at an online casino and bide your time. Hot Shot is a baseball themed slots game which can be found at places like www.iphonecasino.com.au, with a maximum cash jackpot of $2000 available. Even if you don’t manage to win this, you should certainly win something by playing it, thanks to the nine pay-lines and the presence of a wild icon on the reels. It’s the burning baseball, and it can substitute for other missing icons to give you a winning reel – which in turn activates the great sound effect of a bat hitting a baseball. Throw in crowd noises throughout and reel icons of baseball players, catchers’ mitts, and typical baseball snacks, and you have one of the best sports slots games around.

I voted in the IBWAA Hall Of Fame election for 2013, in which Mike Piazza was the only player elected this time around.

In its 2013 Hall of Fame election the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) selected Mike Piazza, with 79.10% of the vote. While no other player managed the required 75% threshold, Craig Biggio was closest with 64.18%.

The IBWAA selected Bert Blyleven in 2010 and Roberto Alomar in 2011. No player tallied 75% in 2012. Though he was elected by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) in 2012, Barry Larkin remains on the IBWAA ballot.

Beginning with this election, the IBWAA added voting for “special consideration” candidates, those normally associated with the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Veterans and Era Committees. This year’s candidates were Buzzie Bavasi, Gil Hodges, Tom Kelly, Marvin Miller, Danny Murtaugh and Vada Pinson.

My ballot can be found in the lead picture, where a yellow highlight means a vote for the individual and a ‘YES’ next to a name means I would have voted for them if I had room.

Recently, I linked to a FanGraphs article about how stolen bases now matter more and why the break-even point is dropping. In the comments section of that article, a user named “Joshua” asked a question I found interesting.

Joshua says:
November 30, 2012 at 7:32 pm

Interesting. What would this do to run expectancy tables and bunting? Is the 1st to 2nd sac bunt now less offensive than before?

I’m sure somebody out there smarter than me has tackled this before, but I had not personally seen this addressed yet, so I thought I would take a look at it.

Outs are always at a premium over advancing one base. There are certain contexts and situations where it makes sense to bunt a player over, but a great majority of the time, it’s still a move that goes against The Book.

I joined the IBWAA and participated in the IBWAA Awardsvote in 2012, the results of which you can see in the picture above.

So did they match what I voted for? Sort of.

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I think everything I voted on is self-explanatory, though there’s room for quibbling here and there.

Thoughts?

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/11/2012-ibwaa-awards-results-my-ballot/feed/0Kris Jenner is already checking out Matt Kemp for a potential publicity marriage to one of her daughtershttp://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/10/kris-jenner-is-already-checking-out-matt-kemp-for-a-potential-publicity-marriage-to-one-of-her-daughters/
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So THAT happened at a Clippers game yesterday, presumably because Matt Kemp was there to see Blake Griffin. Unfortunately, by the look in Kris Jenner‘s eyes, you can tell she’s thinking about him as a potential publicity marriage partner for one of her two younger daughters in a few years.

As a Dodger fan, your initial reaction to this picture basically has to be “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!“, right?

#Analysis

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/10/kris-jenner-is-already-checking-out-matt-kemp-for-a-potential-publicity-marriage-to-one-of-her-daughters/feed/0Comment Of The Day: NotGraphs Commenter Manages To Fit 12 Cliches Into 1 Paragraphhttp://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/09/comment-of-the-day-notgraphs-commenter-manages-to-fit-12-cliches-into-1-paragraph/
http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/09/comment-of-the-day-notgraphs-commenter-manages-to-fit-12-cliches-into-1-paragraph/#commentsWed, 05 Sep 2012 13:51:16 +0000http://www.chadmoriyama.com/?p=9510NotGraphsposted a seemingly innocuous tongue-in-cheek type article about the Baltimore Orioles yesterday, but don’t tell that to one commenter, who managed to fit a whopping 12 cliches into a single paragraph.

Jjmann says:
September 4, 2012 at 1:06 pm

Im sick of the fantasy baseball pencil neck baseball anylists complaining about a team that steps up to challenges and does what it takes to win. Get out of your computer room and go to a game, orioles or otherwise and realize its played by human beings who can believe in what they can do, and not listen to numbers. This is old school baseball. This is what america fell in love with before steriods and computers and million dollar contracts. They may not be there next year, but they believe this year and thats why they win.

Hall Of Fame material right here.

1) Statistics means fantasy baseball.

2) Pencil-necked nerds.

3) Clutchitude.

4) They do whatever it takes to win.

5) Vague mother’s basement reference.

6) We don’t go to the games.

7) Baseball is played by humans.

8) Old school.

9) We love steroids.

10) Computers are hard.

11) Athletes today are spoiled.

12) Armchair psychologist.

Bonus!

1) “anylists”

2) “steriods”

Amazing.

I like to imagine these people as Kevin Hart in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin“.

“Well, aight, check this out, dawg. First of all, you throwin’ too many big words at me, and because I don’t understand them, I’m gonna take ‘em as disrespect. Watch your mouth and help me with the sale.“

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/08/matt-kemp-is-awesome-again-for-reasons-unrelated-to-baseball/feed/0Matt Kemp Is Awesome, This Time For A Reason Unrelated To Baseballhttp://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/07/matt-kemp-is-awesome-this-time-for-a-reason-unrelated-to-baseball/
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So everybody knows Matt Kemp rules on the field, but this is even better than his play.

This Is Matt Kemp. My little sister has AML She met him last Tuesday and he has worn her bracelet ever since. I don’t care if you are a dodger fan or not this man means more to my family then you will ever know.

Awesome.

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/07/matt-kemp-is-awesome-this-time-for-a-reason-unrelated-to-baseball/feed/0Joe Paterno Gave Some Interesting Quotes About His Image & The Death Penalty In 1987http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/07/joe-paterno-gave-some-interesting-quotes-about-his-image-the-death-penalty-in-1987/
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Was browsing around the Internet yesterday, reading up on the Penn State University scandal, and stumbled upon this article by Thomas Ferraro of United Press International published on May 17th, 1987.

Seriously though, if you don’t vote A.J. Ellis to the All-Star Game, I hate you.

If you don’t get what A.J. Ellis is doing here, I also hate you, but Google “Between Two Ferns“.

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/05/a-j-ellis-hosts-between-two-palm-trees-with-clayton-kershaw-is-awesome/feed/0Thanks Sports Illustrated, Now The Dodgers Are Going To Lose 60 In A Rowhttp://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/05/thanks-sports-illustrated-now-the-dodgers-are-going-to-lose-60-in-a-row/
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Or that’s what you would say if you believed in jinxes and what not.

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/05/thanks-sports-illustrated-now-the-dodgers-are-going-to-lose-60-in-a-row/feed/0ESPN Points Out That The Red Sox Are Just A Game Behind The Yankees … Greathttp://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/05/espn-points-out-that-the-red-sox-are-just-a-game-behind-the-yankees-great/
http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/05/espn-points-out-that-the-red-sox-are-just-a-game-behind-the-yankees-great/#commentsMon, 21 May 2012 20:57:47 +0000http://www.chadmoriyama.com/?p=6721

With a headline like that, you would expect this is for the division lead, right?

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No. It’s to see which team ends up in last place.

I swear these two teams could both be at 40-121 going into the last game of the season and their finish would still be hyped more than the teams who were actually winning.

]]>http://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/05/espn-points-out-that-the-red-sox-are-just-a-game-behind-the-yankees-great/feed/0Comment Of The Day: Frank McCourt Is Gone, So Get Over Ithttp://www.chadmoriyama.com/2012/05/comment-of-the-day-frank-mccourt-is-gone-so-get-over-it/
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That comment on Dodger Thoughts from Terry Pruett on the ownership situation basically sums up exactly what I feel about the recent controversy.

I must be the only one who couldn’t care less whether the Dodgers owners reveal their whole involvement with McCourt.